Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 13, 2022

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is more important than ever to devote more resources to the development of vaccinations and other methods of protecting humans from viruses like this. Digital transactions are now moving beyond B2C transactions & venturing into B2B, P2P, cross-border remittances, & more.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2015

How do we escape the 9-5 shackles of corporate drudgery to build a life of adventure, meaning and purpose? By bootstrapping, bartering, reducing overheads (rental and manpower), and leveraging technology (especially the web), one can start one’s own business almost on a dime without being beholden to creditors or venture capitalists.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

In fact, 58% of entrepreneurs worked at corporations before starting their own company. Angel investors, venture capital firms, accelerators, and (maybe) the newer equity crowdfunding will look to see if you have previous experience in startups. This is how you learn to handle rejection because fundraising is difficult.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 2, 2018

This is a fascinating look at the story behind some of the biggest brands in business, who grew from humble beginnings into multi-national corporations. In this fictional series, a disillusioned software developer Naveen quits his job via a drunken phone call on a night out. How I Made My Millions. TVF Pitchers.

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Up and Running

MAY 20, 2019

The anti-drama is painfully relatable to anyone who has ever held a desk job in a large, corporate bureaucracy. If you’re coming up with a business plan for a new venture, there’s a good chance you can relate to this scene. Hassles are the inevitable human cost of any venture. He wants to know if he got the memo.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Students will even receive a minor in entrepreneurship as they develop their own business plans. Dysonics secured $750,000 in funding from angel investors to develop products that will reproduce three-dimensional, immersive sound in headphones. Syracuse Student Sandbox. Harvard Innovation Lab. Innovation Depot.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

Thematically our new investments include 4 targeting the “Rise of the Developer,” 3 in “Intelligent Automation,” and 1 in “Decentralized Computing;” geographically 4 are in NYC, 3 in Bay Area, and 1 in LA (more on our themes ). AYX NYSE) and init.ai , one an early investment in a data science platform and the other on NLP for developers.

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

Startup hubs like Berlin, London, New York, Los Angeles, Bangalore, Hong Kong and Singapore offered access to venture capital and vibrant start ecosystems thus attracting the brightest founders. Over the last decade, a new trend emerged as tech talent was scarce where it was needed the most.

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The Next Web

JULY 13, 2012

In the startup world, venture capital is often viewed as the penultimate goal, yet for many startups bootstrapping is often the reality. But that begs the question: how can you develop a good record when no one will lend to you in the first place? And self-financing puts the emphasis on business credit.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models. Common revenue streams are consulting, training, support, customization, upgraded versions for corporate applications, etc. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 11, 2010

I work for a large corporation and managed to go from having no degree to an MBA by completing 7 years of night classes. About this time a friend and past co-worker approached me asking if I would be willing to work and eventually lead with him on a software development venture.

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

However, thanks to economy of scale, prices for online venture necessities like web hosting and Internet data have dwindled significantly. If you’re having that little itch to try your hands on a tech venture, here are eight simple steps on how to start your own online business with little to no money. Step 2: Name your business.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

In the early 2000s, digital design and development freelancers were sort after – I was fresh out of University (having completed a degree in Media Arts) and was hungry for work. So I packed in my day job – as a software developer – and devoted more time monetizing the blog and website. 19- I was laid off from my job.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 22, 2013

A third of all venture backed companies that went public in the last six years had at least one immigrant founder – [link]. Corporations Will Emulate Collaborative Economy Startups | by Jeremiah Owyang – [link]. Useful Tutorials for Web Designers and Developers – [link]. Free UI Vector Icon Set – [link].

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Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2010

Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 23, 2016

Have you ever noticed how so many major corporations produce commercials that focus more on their brand name rather than an actual product? Working in joint ventures can be a major asset to any business, but without a strong, recognizable brand it can be far more difficult to find partners of this kind. photo credit Very Pixel.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

VENTURE CAPITAL. You are here: Home / Startups / Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital. Software Developer.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. So SuperMac engineering also developed video compression software, called Cinepak. The software was idiot proof. There was nothing for the consumer to do.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

Goldman Sachs and CB Insights recently reported that startups have raised over $1 billion in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) this summer — more than the total amount of venture capital raised during the same period. A company that can successfully raise money in an ICO may never need venture capital again. Need for growth capital.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

Goldman Sachs and CB Insights recently reported that startups have raised over $1 billion in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) this summer — more than the total amount of venture capital raised during the same period. A company that can successfully raise money in an ICO may never need venture capital again. Need for growth capital.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Note, if you want to do “strategy” (which is a fine endeavor) and nothing else, you have just defined your career as one in large corporation or in a consulting firm. Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. Stay out of startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Maples Investments is the only venture investor I know who has oriented their entire strategy to lean startups. Agile software development. Agile allows companies to build higher quality software faster. Customer development. Theyve invested in many great companies , including IMVU , Digg , Kongregate , Twitter.

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VC Cafe

JULY 26, 2020

“After the crash, venture capital was scarce to non-existent. Angel investment, which was small to start with, disappeared, and most corporate VCs shut down. Ditch the business plan and when assumptions are proven wrong, pivot Customer Development: Build a product your customers want (vs.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

This is the fourth in a series about corporate innovation co-authored with Evangelos Simoudis. Evangelos and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. Successful Innovation Outposts typically develop over a period of time through three stages. How do you staff it?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

If youre looking for resources on getting started, see " Continuous deployment in 5 easy steps ") The goal of continuous deployment is to help development teams drive waste out of their process by simultaneously reducing the batch size and increasing the tempo of their work. How severely is failure punished?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

family of brands), I was there to source the absolute best talent for the Product Management summer internship program in order to continue to push HomeAway’s agenda to develop a Tier 1 workforce. Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Corporate Blog. Developers. Gather quotes from multiple (at least 3) development companies for building a minimum feature prototype. Do an initial financial projection based on competitors’ prices, your development costs, and the advertising costs to see if your product is financially viable. Our Vision. Contact Us.

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 31, 2016

Today Dr.Zarik Boghossian shares his personal story of being born in Iran and moving to the US, the hardships he faced because of his accent, having no money and how he moved on to successfully develop a software that does the flight navigation for the international space station. Corporate Partners. Our Guest . RideMates, Inc.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 19, 2016

Over the past few years, there has been an incredible revolution in the way that software applications are built and run. The Cloud has simplified and accelerated time to development, Big Data has made applications smarter and more predictive, and Microservices are changing the way we think about our application architecture.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Instead of arguing why Dallas might be better than Houston we should be talking about how we can work together to get our share of venture capital dollars more in line with our population size and startup activity by unlocking additional capital sources that have been previously inaccessible to tech.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Postmortem of a Venture-backed Startup – crowdspring.co/1en8HwW. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 25+ Really Useful Tools For CSS Developers – crowdspring.co/168LNjT. Are All Marketers Liars or Just Good Storytellers? 18wo2ZM.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

You can also spend time with a newer startup helping them navigate the world of product management, venture capital or team building. If you’re at a large corporation, you have the ability to give a startup the first contract they need to break out from the crowd or at least give them their first pilot.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

“About three-quarters of venture-backed firms in the U.S. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 30 Beautiful Corporate Websites | Vandelay Design – crowdspring.co/MX8s13. – crowdspring.co/1fkwYB1. OPEN Forum – crowdspring.co/1f7YIKA.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Moshe Lichtman, the man once in charge of all of Microsoft’s technology development in Israel, says that the time has come to build a billion dollar Israeli company. Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. By Ben Bakhshi. In this post I break down an article by TheMarker.co.il

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bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

Many capable founders aren’t developers, and I frequently meet with entrepreneurs that have taken a very different path. Most disturbingly, I’ve occasionally found myself agreeing with an entrepreneur’s decision to hire a development shop to build their product. But this often isn’t the way things turn out.

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